Notes: Omnicom Group includes three agency networks: BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide Communications and TBWA Worldwide and a host of independent agencies that reside in its Diversified Agencies Services sector. These DAS shops are shown as "Other Omnicom Shops." Omnicom also owns media-services companies OMD Worldwide and PhD, and a battery of PR agencies including Porter Novelli International, Fleishman-Hillard, Ketchum and Brodeur Worldwide. Omnicom Group and ComVergIT Partners in 2000 invested $22 million for a "significant minority" in interactive-services concern Oyster Partners, London. This was Omnicom's first investment in an interactive company in Europe. Omnicom at mid-year 2000 took a substantial minority stake in several health-care Internet companies: Healthology and Caresoft, operators of consumer site theDailyApple.com; eMedicine.com and WorldMedicalLeaders.com, both aimed at physicians; and eResearch Technology, a clinical-trials site. Omnicom bought Steiner Sports Marketing, New York, and took an equity stake in Horrow Sports Ventures, Palm Beach, Fla., in the fall of 2000. Ketchum in February 2001 agreed to buy the Washington Group, a lobbying agency in Washington with revenue estimated at $4.8 million. It will operate under that name as part of the Ketchum Washington office. Michael Greenlees stepped down as president & CEO at TBWA Worldwide to take leadership at Omnicom's Communicade unit which cobbles together its various investments in interactive shops. Omnicom teamed with Pegasus Partners in April 2001 to form an e-services company to hold stakes in Agency.com, Organic and Razorfish "to maximize consolidation and other strategic opportunities." Omnicom is expected to contribute its minority stakes in these agencies to the new company. These stakes have slipped in value from a total of $1.3 billion in December '99 to $30 million this April.

Notes: The BBDO Worldwide consolidated network includes the BBDO-named agencies in the U.S. and the BBDO international network, and individual agency brands BGM-FMJ Healthcare, Frank J. Corbett, Doremus & Co., InterOne Marketing Group, Lyons Lavey Nickel Swift, and TLP-Tracy Locke Partnership. Consolidated BBDO also includes half the returns of Harrison Wilson & Associates, Harrison & Star Business Group and Rapp Collins Worldwide, and a third of the returns of Alcone Marketing Group, GMR Group, Ketchum Directory Services and Gary M. Reynolds & Associates. BBDO's equity share in the Australia-New Zealand ad organization, Clemenger Group, and Tokyo-based I&S/BBDO also are included in returns.

BBDO Worldwide

Agency brand totals ($ in millions)

Worldwide 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $1,534.0 $1,437.0 6.7

Billings $13,611.5 $12,420.9 9.6

Employees 15,985 14,057 13.7

Offices 239 235 1.7

U.S. 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $398.5 $361.1 10.3

Billings $4,599.3 $4,116.9 11.7

Employees 1,885 1,733 8.8

Offices 24 25 -4.0

U.S. offices Billings

BBDO Worldwide, Atlanta 392.5

BBDO Worldwide, Chicago 402.0

BBDO Worldwide, Los Angeles 273.2

BBDO Worldwide, Miami 41.2

BBDO Worldwide, Minneapolis 105.1

Atmosphere, New York 54.4

BBDO Worldwide, New York 2,161.9

African offices Billings

BBDO South Africa, Cape Town (MJ) 53.8

Asian & Pacific offices Billings

BBDO Hong Kong, Hong Kong (MJ) 55.6

BBDO/CNUAC Advertising, Beijing (MJ) 11.6

BBDO Asia Pacific, Hong Kong (MJ) 0.2

RK Swamy BBDO Advertising, Chennai (JV) 64.9

BBDO/Komunika, Jakarta (MN) 8.4

I & S Corp., Tokyo (MN) 967.0

BBDO Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (MJ) 18.2

BBDO Guerrero Ortega, Makati City (JV) 11.0

BBDO Singapore, Singapore (MJ) 27.1

BBDO Dongbang, Seoul (JV) 18.1

BBDO Taiwan Advertising, Taipei (MJ) 9.3

BBDO Bangkok, Bangkok (MJ) 24.4

Canadian offices Billings

BBDO Canada, Toronto (MJ) 479.0

European offices Billings

BBDO Holding, Vienna (MJ) 129.3

BBDO Belgium, Brussels (MJ) 162.7

Ovation Advertising, Sarajevo (NE) 0.7

Graffiti/BBDO-Sofia, Sofia (NE) 13.0

BBDO Zagreb, Zagreb (MJ) 9.7

Telia & Pavla/BBDO, Nicosia (NE) 15.5

Mark/BBDO, Prague (MJ) 40.2

BBDO, Copenhagen (MJ) 110.9

Zavod Advertising, Tallinn (NE) 0.7

BBDO Helsinki, Helsinki (MJ) 7.7

BBDO Paris, Issy les Moulineaux (MJ) 767.9

BBDO Group Germany, Duesseldorf (MJ) 1,676.1

BBDO Group Greece, Athens (MJ) 159.8

BBDO Budapest, Budapest (MJ) 28.0

Irish International Group, Dublin (MJ) 53.8

D'Adda, Lorenzini, Visorelli BBDO, Milan (MN) 120.7

Lukrecijos Reklama , Vilnius (NE) 3.6

Ovation Advertising, Skopje (NE) 0.9

BBDO Nederland, Amstelveen (JV) 369.1

BBDO Myres, Oslo (MJ) 54.9

NOS/BBDO, Warsaw (MJ) 53.5

BBDO Portugal, Lisbon (MJ) 88.4

Graffiti/BBDO, Bucharest (MN) 2.9

BBDO Moscow, Moscow (MJ) 47.5

Mark/BBDO Bratislava, Bratislava (MN) 22.4

Formitas, Ljubljana (NE) 6.5

European offices Billings

BBDO Espana, Barcelona (MJ) 339.9

ANR BBDO Reklambyra, Stockholm (MN) 11.5

Otto Stockholm, Stockholm (MN) 3.2

Ehrenstrahle, Stockholm (MJ) 34.6

BBDO Group, Istanbul (MJ) 67.2

Provid/BBDO, Kiev (NE) 16.5

Abbott Mead Vickers/BBDO, London (MJ) 1,657.0

Ovation Advertising, Belgrade (NE) 5.0

Latin American offices Billings

Ratto/BBDO, Buenos Aires (MN) 47.1

Almap/BBDO Comunicacoes, Sao Paulo (MJ) 285.5

BBDO de Chile, Santiago (MJ) 94.6

Sancho/BBDO, Bogota (MN) 87.8

Garnier/BBDO, San Jose (MN) 28.4

Pages/BBDO, Santo Domingo (MN) 27.9

Apex BBDO, San Salvador (MN) 43.1

BBDO Guatemala, Guatemala City (MJ) 24.9

Zeus/BBDO, Tegucigalpa (MN) 4.8

BBDO Mexico, Mexico City (MJ) 204.4

BBDO Nicaragua, Managua (JV) 3.7

Campagnani/BBDO Panama, Panama City (MJ) 10.0

BBDO Peru, Lima (MN) 10.2

BBDO Puerto Rico, San Juan (MJ) 42.0

BBDO Venezuela, Caracas (JV) 42.5

Middle Eastern offices Billings

Gitam BBDO, Ramat-Gan (MN) 85.0

Notes: The BBDO brand includes the BBDO-named shops in the U.S. and the BBDO international network. In November 2000, BBDO won the $1.8 billion in billings Chrysler Group business (Chrysler corporate and Chrysler and Jeep brands) in the U.S. Omnicom then created PentaMark Worldwide in which it placed the Dodge creative then at BBDO Detroit and Chrysler Group media buying then and now at PentaCom. Chrysler Group pushed Omnicom to hire executives from FCB Detroit. PentaMark Worldwide is a consolidation of BBDO Detroit, PentaCom and other pieces of a BBDO agency previously known as PentaMark.

Notes: Corbett Healthcare Group is a healthcare agency that includes DDB Corbett, a joint venture linked in January 2000 with DDB Chicago. The jv is involved in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

Notes: The agency turned full circle in 2000, retrieving the Tracy Locke name from which it evolved in the early 1990s. Begun as a creative agency in 1913 under the Tracy Locke banner, the agency shortened its name to TLP in the '90s as it concentrated on promotional marketing. In the past two years, however, TLP has evolved into a full-service creative organization with dual headquarters in Dallas and Wilton, Conn.

Notes: Wirz Group is a non-equity affiliate of the BBDO Worldwide network. Not included in its agency office breakout are non-agency activities from Wirz Public Relations, Wirz Investor Relations (financial PR), Frontpage (customer publishing) and Wirz Link. The Group does not fully own any of its operations, with equity varying from 51% to 80% among the various units. Equity totals are shown in the table for Wirz.

Notes: DDB Worldwide Communications is a consolidation of the multinational agency of the same name, plus Elgin DDB, Griffin Bacal, Moss Dragoti, Worldwide Marketing, Team Frito-Lay and 49% equity in Spike DDB. Additionally, the consolidated network includes independent shops Bernard Hodes and KPR, half the returns of Harrison Wilson & Associates, Harrison & Star Business Group and Rapp Collins Worldwide, and a third of the returns of Alcone Marketing Group, GMR Group, Ketchum Directory Services and Gary M. Reynolds & Associates.

DDB Worldwide Communications

Agency brand totals ($ in millions)

Worldwide 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $1,176.9 $1,076.8 9.3

Billings $9,781.0 $8,678.5 12.7

Employees 11,527 10,247 12.5

Offices 176 151 16.6

U.S. 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $390.9 $342.8 14.0

Billings $4,252.8 $3,531.6 20.4

Employees 2,341 2,221 5.4

Offices 10 10 0.0

U.S. offices Billings

DDB, Chicago 1,532.7

DDB Dallas Group, Dallas 251.6

DDB, Los Angeles 865.0

Moss Dragoti, New York 75.5

Spike DDB, New York 13.7

Griffin Bacal, New York 119.6

Worldwide Marketing, New York 43.6

DDB, New York 757.7

DDB, San Francisco 346.0

Elgin DDB, Seattle 254.5

African offices Billings

DDB Framptons, Johannesburg (NE) 17.3

Ceres-DDB, Tunis (NE) 2.1

Asian & Pacific offices Billings

DDB Australia Worldwide, North Sydney (MJ) 241.9

DDB Worldwide-Hong Kong, Hong Kong (MJ) 118.2

DDB Worldwide-China, Beijing (MJ) 20.8

David & Usita DDB, Agana Heights (NE)

Mudra Communications, Ahmedabad (MN) 157.9

Fortune DDB, Jakarta (NE) 7.8

DDB Japan, Tokyo (MJ) 122.8

Naga DDB, Petaling Jaya (MN) 25.9

DDB New Zealand, Auckland (MJ) 46.2

DDB Philippines, Pasig City (MJ) 14.6

DDB Singapore, Singapore (MJ) 56.1

Lee & DDB, Seoul (MJ) 64.2

Masters DDB, Colombo (NE) 1.3

DDB Worldwide-Taiwan, Taipei (MJ) 29.7

Far East DDB, Bangkok (MN) 31.4

Canadian offices Billings

DDB Group Canada, Toronto (MJ) 221.8

Griffin Bacal Volny, Toronto (MJ) 22.7

European offices Billings

CCP, Heye/Austria, Vienna (MJ) 31.4

Salmon DDB, Minsk (NE) 0.4

DDB Group/Belgium, Brussels (MJ) 93.5

Olympic DDB Bulgaria, Sofia (MJ) 1.4

Futura DDB, Zagreb (MJ) 5.1

Pyramis DDB, Nicosia (MJ) 6.2

DDB/Czech Republic, Prague (MJ) 11.6

DDB Denmark, Copenhagen (MJ) 83.5

Brand Sellers DDB Estonia, Tallinn (MJ) 9.9

DDB Worldwide/Finland, Helsinki (MJ) 112.2

DDB Communication Group France, Paris (MJ) 112.7

DDB Germany, Duesseldorf (MJ) 381.8

Heye & Partner, Unterhaching (MJ) 214.8

Olympic DDB/Greece, Athens (MJ) 81.6

DDB/Hungary, Budapest (MJ) 21.1

Owens DDB, Dublin (NE) 0.0

Verba, Milan (MJ) 149.9

Brand Sellers DDB Baltics, Riga (MJ) 6.3

Brand Sellers DDB Vilnius, Vilnius (MJ) 2.9

IDEA Plus DDB, Skopje (NE) 2.3

Result DDB, Amstelveen (MJ) 260.6

New Deal DDB, Oslo (MJ) 56.3

Corporate Profiles DDB, Warsaw (MN) 124.7

Guerreiro DDB, Lisbon (MJ) 50.2

Olympic DDB/Romania, Bucharest (MJ) 3.9

Navigator DDB, Moscow (MN) 31.4

DDB/Slovak Republic, Bratislava (MJ) 4.2

Tandem DDB, Barcelona (MJ) 261.8

Paradiset DDB, Stockholm (MJ) 55.9

Seiler DDB, Zurich (MN) 125.0

Medina/Turgul DDB, Istanbul (MN) 74.2

Burkitt DDB, London (MJ) 75.3

BMP DDB, London (MJ) 929.6

Idea Plus DDB Belgrade, Belgrade (NE) 3.2

Latin American offices Billings

Rainuzzo DDB, Buenos Aires (MJ) 39.8

Greg Hoyos Associates, St. Michael (NE) 3.0

DM9 DDB Publicidade, Sao Paulo (MJ) 278.9

Zegers DDB Worldwide, Santiago (MN) 30.7

DDB Worldwide/Colombia, Bogota (MN) 28.0

DDB Worldwide Costa Rica, San Jose (MN) 6.5

Tactica Publicitaria, Guayaquil (NE) 2.1

RCM DDB Worldwide, San Salvador (MN) 7.1

Publinac DDB, Guatemala City (MN) 8.8

Gibert DDB, Mexico City (MJ) 33.1

Publimerc-DDB Nicaragua*, Managua (MN) 3.6

DDB Paraguay, Asuncion (NE) 4.2

EJE Sociedad Publicitaria, San Juan (NE) 38.0

Lopito, Ileana & Howie, Guaynabo (NE) 68.5

Rostant Advertising, Port of Spain (NE) 1.5

Slogan DDB, Montevideo (MN) 5.2

Target DDB, Caracas (MN) 27.6

Middle Eastern offices Billings

DDB Bahrain, Manama (NE) 2.8

DDB/Tarek Nour Communications Grp, Cairo (NE) 65.6

Linial DDB, Tel Aviv (MN) 26.0

OHI DDB, Muscat (NE) 4.0

TD&A DDB, Sharjah (NE) 18.3

Notes: The brand DDB Worldwide Communications includes the DDB-named shops in the U.S. and the DDB international network. Ken Kaess became successor-apparent to Keith Reinhard, chairman & CEO, in May '99 when he was named chairman of newly-formed worldwide operating committee. He had been president of DDB's North American operations. London agency Court Burkitt was bought by Omnicom in June 2000 and merged into DDB's Griffin Bacal office in London to form Burkitt DDB. DDB in 2000 merged its worldwide interactive agencies into Tribal DDB Worldwide, New York, focusing on online marketing, consulting and Web engineering. Merging units include DDB Digital, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and Sydney; BMP InterAction, London; E-scape/Generator, Copenhagen; DDB Interactive, Paris; DDB Interactive, Madrid; and Heye New Media, Munich. DDB owns more than 80% of Tribal DDB. DDB's Griffin Bacal, New York, lost its dominant Hasbro account in December 2000, and cut its staff by two-thirds. Half of the departing employees were absorbed by parent agency DDB New York, which got the Hasbro account. DDB acquired in January 2001 a minority stake in Fathom, a marketing consultancy formed by two former DDB execs, Peter Groome and Tres McCullough.

Notes: DDB bought a significant minority of Del Rivero Messianu in February 2001, the second time it has taken equity in the Hispanic shop. Del Rivero management bought back DDB's holdings in 1998, but the two agencies continued to work for the same clients, particularly McDonald's Corp. and State Farm Insurance. The shop will help DDB develop panregional coverage for Latin America. Its own billings are split 60% U.S. and 40% Latin America.

Notes: The TBWA global agency network is a consolidation of the TBWA international agency network that in the U.S. includes TBWA/Chiat/Day and Zimmerman Partners. Consolidated totals shown in the accompanying box also include a third each of the returns of Alcone Marketing Group, GMR Group, Ketchum Directory Services and Gary M. Reynolds & Associates.

TBWA Worldwide

Agency brand totals ($ in millions)

Worldwide 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $917.7 $821.7 11.7

Billings $6,609.4 $5,875.9 12.5

Employees 7,447 6,598 12.9

Offices 152 133 14.3

TBWA/Chiat/Day 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $240.3 $219.9 9.3

Billings $1,877.4 $1,660.7 13.0

Employees 842 835 0.8

Offices 3 3 0.0

African offices Billings

TBWA Hunt Lascaris, Sandton (MJ) 228.6

Media Direction OMD, Sandton (MJ) 73.2

Asian & Pacific offices Billings

Whybin Lawrence TBWA, Sydney (MJ) 60.6

Whybin TBWA & Partners, Melbourne (MJ) 72.8

TBWA Hong Kong, Hong Kong (MJ) 34.2

Tequila Hong Kong, Hong Kong (MJ) 2.1

TBWA Lee Davis Advertising, Shanghai (MJ) 21.4

TBWA Anthem, New Delhi (MJ) 20.2

TBWA Jakarta, Jakarta (MJ) 7.6

TBWA/Japan, Tokyo (MJ) 220.3

e-Graphics, Tokyo (MJ) 48.7

Whybin TBWA, Auckland (MJ) 14.7

Trigger Australasia, Auckland (MJ) 3.3

TBWA Singapore, Singapore (MJ) 26.7

Tequila Asia Pacific, Singapore (MJ) 7.6

TBWA Korea, Seoul (MJ) 164.8

TBWA Next & Triplet Advertising, Bangkok (MJ) 28.5

Canadian offices Billings

Bryant Fulton & Shee Advertising, Vancouver (MJ) 35.6

TBWA/Chiat/Day, Toronto (MJ) 74.5

European offices Billings

TBWA TELL Werbeagentur, Vienna (MJ) 13.1

Austria3/TBWA, Vienna (MJ) 13.2

Mediaplan, Vienna (MJ) 37.9

TBWA/GV Group Belgium, Brussels (MJ) 76.6

TBWA/Sofia, Sofia (MJ) 0.1

TBWA Zagreb, Zagreb (MJ) 2.5

TBWA/Czech Republic, Prague (MN) 14.9

MAX/TBWA, Prague (MJ) 2.2

Mediaplan Prague, Prague (MJ) 3.0

TBWA Reklamebureau, Copenhagen (MJ) 18.5

Paltemaa Huttunen Santala TBWA, Helsinki (MN) 48.2

TBWA France, Paris (MJ) 1,189.8

TBWA Germany, Frankfurt (MJ) 338.0

TBWA/Athens, Athens (MN) 20.2

TBWA Planet, Budapest (MJ) 4.4

TBWA Budapest Reklamugynokseg, Budapest (MJ) 8.9

Tequila Pro Ad, Milan (MJ) 16.2

TBWA Italy, Milan (MJ) 145.7

TBWA Netherlands, Amsterdam (MJ) 379.7

TBWA/Hakuhodo, Amsterdam (MN) 9.2

Bold TBWA, Oslo (MJ) 15.3

Tequila Poland, Warsaw (MJ) 5.4

TBWA Warszawa, Warsaw (MJ) 11.1

Hager Polska, Warsaw (MJ) 14.0

Tequila Portugal, Lisbon (MJ) 6.8

TBWA EPG Publicidade, Lisbon (MJ) 46.3

Planet TBWA, Bucharest (MJ) 1.7

Mediaplan Romania, Bucharest (MJ) 3.3

TBWA Bucharest, Bucharest (MJ) 3.9

TBWA Russia, Moscow (NE) 11.4

TBWA/Bratislava, Bratislava (MJ) 2.9

TBWA Ljubljana, Ljubljana (MJ) 1.4

TBWA Espana, Madrid (MJ) 198.6

TBWA Reklambyra, Stockholm (MJ) 4.5

Impuls TBWA, Kuesnacht (MJ) 61.7

TBWA Reklam Hizmetleri, Istanbul (MJ) 43.1

TBWA UK Group, London (MJ) 835.0

Latin American offices Billings

Savaglio TBWA y Asociados, Buenos Aires (JV) 26.4

TBWA Propaganda, Sao Paulo (MJ) 44.8

TBWA Frederick y Valenzuela, Santiago (MN) 10.4

TBWA Colombo-Suiza, Bogota (NE) 8.5

TBWA Costa Rica, San Jose (MN) 3.8

TBWA Viteri, Quito (NE) 3.7

Wach'alal TBWA, Guatemala City (NE) 2.9

Teran TBWA, Mexico City (MN) 87.8

TBWA Peru, Lima (NE) 19.4

TBWA Puerto Rico, Santurce (NE) 16.1

TBWA Camara, Montevideo (NE) 8.1

TBWA Venezuela, Caracas (NE) 11.7

Middle Eastern offices Billings

Yehoshua TBWA, Tel Aviv (MN) 31.0

TBWA/RAAD, Dubai (MJ) 3.2

Notes: TBWA, the agency brand, includes TBWA/Chiat/Day (Marina del Rey, Calif., New York and San Francisco) and the TBWA international network. TBWA and Hakuhodo created agency G1 Worldwide for Nissan Motor Co. in 2000, splitting the venture 50/50 worldwide. The joint effort is a part of Nissan's "one brand, one voice" revival plan announced last year by Nissan President Carlos Ghosn. Michael Greenlees stepped down as president & CEO of TBWA in March 2001 to become involved in the e-services strategy in Omnicom's Communicade division. Jean-Marie Dru, the president & CEO of TBWA's international operations, succeeded him. That executive change followed the departure in January 2001 of Robert Kuperman as president & CEO of TBWA Americas. He left to head up the New York office of sibling agency DDB Worldwide.

Notes: Zimmerman is a traditional agency. It entered the TBWA fold in 1999 after taking over the regional marketing for Nissan dealers previously handled by TBWA/Chiat/Day. The latter has the national Nissan North America account.

Notes: "Other" Omnicom shops are independent agency brands that are separate from Omnicom's three agency networks. Various portions of the returns of several of these shops are allocated to Omnicom's three networks. Allocated shops are indicated in the sketches on each network.

Accel Healthcare Communications

Agency totals ($ in millions)

U.S. 2000 1999 % chg

Gross income $8.7 $3.0 187.2

Billings $68.5 $22.7 202.3

Employees 55 22 150.0

Offices 1 1 0.0

Notes: Accel is a healthcare shop formed around principals who left Grey Healthcare. Twenty-five percent of its gross income is from interactive.

Notes: AnswerThink Consulting Group has two divisions, Think New Ideas, dealing with traditional advertising and AnswerThink Interactive Marketing, an e-business solutions company that provides e-business strategies, benchmarking, branding and marketing, Web development, and technology architecture and integration. Omnicom owns only 2% of the company.

Notes: DFR/J&P is 49% owned by Omnicom. Della Femina Jeary gained Grace & Rothschild in 2000, extending its moniker in the process. Ad Age estimated its gross income based on billings supplied by the agency.

Notes: Footsteps was formed in January 2000 as an African-American agency headed by Verdia Johnson, formerly of Stedman Graham & Partners, and Al Gay, formerly of UniWorld. Omnicom owns 49% of the startup.

Notes: The agency is a healthcare shop. It separated from Harrison & Star three years ago. The agency's interactive unit, Harrison Wilson Digital, contributed $1.1 million in gross income, down 21% from 1999.

Notes: Integer specializes in retail advertising, sales promotion and field marketing. It owns Stern Advertising, Cleveland, Kragie/Newell, Des Moines, and Karsh & Hagan. All are consolidated into Integer. Integer's interactive side rose to $5.1 million gross income in 2000 from $1.6 million in 1999.

Notes: Lieber, Levett, Koenig, Farese, Babcock, a direct marketing agency, was purchased by Omnicom in March 2001. At the time of the acquisition, the agency had a nonequity relationship with Saatchi & Saatchi, and will continue to work on select clients with Saatchi.

Notes: Since November 1999, Merkley Newman Harty has expanded by merger. Parent Omnicom has consolidated into the agency Consumer Healthworks, Team South (a direct marketing unit), and Eisnor Interactive, a New York interactive agency specializing in handling offline campaigns for online clients.

Notes: Organic is a publicly owned interactive agency 17.3% owned by Omnicom. In March 2001, Organic, BBDO Worldwide and its digital marketing agency, Atmosphere, began discussing establishing a strategic alliance. The units share a number of clients such as DaimlerChrysler. Organic reorganized in the fourth quarter 2000, cutting 269 positions, leaving 954 by yearend. Organic founded an office in Toronto in March 2000; its other foreign offices are in London, Singapore and Sao Paulo. Organic also has a Detroit office largely to service the DaimlerChrysler account.

Notes: Rapp Collins is an international direct response agency network with a growing interactive presence in Rapp Digital Direct ($38.1 million gross income in 2000, up 161%). Rapp Collins in September 2000 bought Innovyx, a Seattle-based e-mail application service provider, and folded it into Rapp Digital Direct. Rapp Collins in March 2001 closed is 29-person Minneapolis office and consolidated Midwest accounts with Rapp Collins' Chicago office.

Notes: Red Sky is 18% owned by Omnicom, down from 18.5% before it merged with another interactive shop, Nuforia, in March 2000. Red Sky in September 2000 bought Olive Jar Studios, a Boston and Los Angeles-based animation and film producer, and White Noise Productions, a Los Angeles multimedia agency. Then in October Red Sky sold a minority stake to Texaco. It had been named in August by Texaco to handle interactive consulting. BBDO creates corporate campaigns for Texaco.

Notes: Targetbase, a direct marketing, customer relationship management agency with offices in Irving, Texas, and Greensboro, N.C., came with the 1999 purchase by Omnicom of M/A/R/C, a marketing intelligence firm. M/A/R/C's two main divisions are Targetbase and DM/A/R/C Research, which provides customer and brand marketing research for measuring and building a brand's value. Targetbase drew 13% of its gross income from interactive in 2000.

Notes: U.S. Marketing & Promotions Agency was purchased by Omnicom in May 2000. The agency, founded in 1983, is a marketing services shop dominated by event marketing and sales promotion. USM&P has 350 full-time employees and 20,000 part-timers in the field.